OC#2 2026

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

This contribution is intended to impact the development of new, more competitive AI-based Electronic Health Record products offered by European vendors.

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

The project lays the foundation for an accessible and efficient ecosystem around AI in healthcare. Harmonising standards such as FHIR and ISO 13606 reduce technical barriers, enabling SMEs to develop solutions compatible with existing systems and compete with large enterprises. It also lowers development costs and drives innovation.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

The expected outcome is a standardised framework to support the effective implementation of AI in healthcare, facilitating the standardisation of interoperable, AI-ready patient data across Europe by fostering the implementation of the European Health Data Space.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

For society, AI standardisation promises to improve quality, safety, and equity in healthcare. It will foster public trust through compliance with ethical and privacy principles aligned with European values such as transparency. These improvements can translate into more accurate diagnoses and personalized treatments, benefiting patients and professionals.

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Head of Computational Health Informatics Group, Institute of Biomedicine of Sev…

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Academia/Research

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Head of Computational Health Informatics Group, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Standards for the next generation of information for Healthcare and Research, AI-Language Models-based

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Advancing AI and Health Standards: Harmonizing Information Interoperability and AI for Healthcare

ISO/TC 215

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (2nd Open Call)

E-Health, Healthy living and ageing

Topic (5th Open Call)

Jurriaan Parie

Description of Activities

ICT Standards funding enables me to attend JTC21 WG1, WG2, WG3 and WG4 meetings and national commission gatherings of NEN (Dutch standardisation body). For me, as a newcomer to the field of standardisation, attending various international and national standardisation-related meetings is insightful.

Fellow's country

Netherlands

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

European SMEs benefit from my work advocating for the inclusion of stakeholder panels to assess and resolve fundamental rights tensions in AI systems because our work contributes to legal certainty, thereby contributing to a stable and predictable environment for conducting business.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

European societies benefit from the inclusion of stakeholder panels in AI deployment as it places normative questions about AI in democratic sight, bringing normative questions about AI and technology to the political arena to debate different viewpoints in a free and open manner.

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Not for Profit Organisation

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AI bias testing expert, Stichting Algorithm Audit

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AI bias testing expert, Stichting Algorithm Audit

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- Case repository with harmonised standards being part of audit criteria

Standards Development Organisation

CEN/CENELEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (2nd Open Call)

FinTech & RegTech Standardisation

Tony Allen

Description of Activities

This is a project with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27/WG 5 addressing Identity Management and Privacy Technologies. It feeds into broader standardisation activity around digital identity (including the EUDI Wallet), child protection, prevention of exploitation and abuse, data minimisation, privacy preservation and security objectives.

Fellow's country

United Kingdom

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

European SMEs have been involved in European iterations of the IEEE 2089 project on age-appropriate design through a CEN/CENELEC working group.

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

This work benefits European SMEs by creating a uniform framework for age verification that aligns with EU regulatory standards like GDPR and the Digital Services Act.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

The development of international standards on age assurance ensures uniformity in verifying age across borders, fostering trust in various sectors like healthcare, education, and online services. This consistency enhances child protection measures, promotes safer online environments, facilitates age-appropriate content access, and strengthens accountability in age-sensitive industries, benefiting society globally.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

The societal impact includes fostering safer online environments, protecting children from exploitation, and promoting accountability in industries like healthcare, education, and digital content.

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Chief Executive, AVID Certification Services Ltd

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Other

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Chief Executive, AVID Certification Services Ltd

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Technical Editor ISO/IEC 27566 Age Assurance Systems - Framework

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Technical Editor ISO/IEC 27566 Age Assurance Systems - Framework

Global Age Assurance Standards Summit

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection

Standards Development Organisation

ISO/IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

FinTech & RegTech Standardisation

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Topic (5th Open Call)

FinTech & RegTech Standardisation

Sebastian Posth

Description of Activities

In the context of this fellowship, I have been working solely on ISO/CD 24138, the International Standard Content Code. The ISCC is part of “ISO/TC 46/SC 9 Identification and description”.

Fellow's country

Netherlands

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

The ISCC will support SMEs, i.e. creators, media organisations, retailers, platforms, collecting societies and other stakeholder from all media sectors in Europe, to claim rights to copyright protected works, prevent misappropriation and abuse online, to provide metadata and rights management information, support identification and authentication of original content and counter fake news and disinformation.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

One relevant use case for the ISCC is that it supports creators and rights holders to make declarations of digital media content together with proper metadata and credentials. This way, users and or online platforms can verify digital media content online, identify original content or distinguish it from disinformation and fake news.

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Convenor, ISCC Foundation

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Convenor, ISCC Foundation

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ISO/DIS 24138 – ISCC – International Standard Content Code

ISO/TC 46/SC 9

Standards Development Organisation

DIN

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Christian Grafenauer

Description of Activities

Blockchain technology is poised to play a fundamental role in democratising internet technology, offering decentralised solutions that prioritise transparency, security, and user empowerment.

Fellow's country

Germany

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

The impact of the standardisation activity on European SMEs is achieved by aligning international standards with European directives, like GDPR, helping SMEs gain clarity and confidence in navigating regulatory landscapes, fostering an environment conducive to innovation and compliance.

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

These standardisation efforts foster essentially the risk management of SMEs enabling to Streamline AI compliance and integration, reducing regulatory burdens for SMEs. These also improve cybersecurity; while developing robust standards to protect SMEs from AI vulnerabilities. Finally these exchange competitiveness as SMEs’ market presence is increased through trustworthy AI systems.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ensures industry activities are conducted responsibly and ethically. Secondly, this does not only strengthen Europe's economic leadership in the ICT sector, but also fosters job creation and sustainable growth. Thirdly, by prioritising consumer protection, the standardisation activity ensures that the rights and interests of European consumers are upheld as blockchain and DLT reshape industries

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

Consumer Protection is improved with these standards, as they advance consumer rights and safety in AI, building public trust. Also, social Well-being is improved by promoting AI applications in critical sectors like healthcare, enhancing societal benefits.
This activity also supports ethical AI development, aligning with European values for balanced technological progress. These contributions position Europe at the forefront of responsible AI development, benefiting both the economy and society.

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SDO/National Standard Body

OC#4 2026

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Organization

Consumer Representative, DIN Verbraucherrat e.V.

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Consumer Representative, DIN Verbraucherrat e.V.

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Consumer-Centric Blockchain Standards: A Holistic Approach to DLT Identity and Security Protocols

Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Enhancing AI Standards for Consumer Protection and Compliance

ISO/TC 307

CEN/CLC/JTC 19 - Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies

CEN/CLC/JTC 21 - Artificial Intelligence

Standards Development Organisation

CEN/CENELEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Topic (4th Open Call)

Paul Ferris

Description of Activities

This fellowship project has prioritised ‘gap areas’ where the lack of adequate DLT/Blockchain standards is slowing the formulation of government regulations and cross border agencies, or where ambiguity of language is causing confusion or slowing integration of distributed systems.

Fellow's country

Greece

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

This ISO features on my work at ISO/TC 307 and AG1 and explains the societal impacts of trust across finance, supply chains, digital trust, data provenance, Energy trading, records management, Anti-counterfeit pharma and food safety and provenance.

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

There are a confusing range of possibilities that SME's are unlikely to be equipped to assess without a set of dependant standards to guide them. The criteria for such decisions needs examination, the approach and comparative measurement needs standards to be effective. This project links the SMEs operating in the business arena and the standards development to support their operations. Sustainability standards often have conflicting objectives, so a specific plan to develop appropriate standards to the benefit of the EU does affect the global community.

Impact on SMEs (8th Open Call)

There are a confusing range of possibilities that SME’s are unlikely to be equipped to assess without a set of dependant standards to guide them. The criteria for such decisions needs examination, the approach & comparative measurement needs standards to be effective. This project links the SMEs operating in the business arena and the standards development to support their operations. Sustainability standards often have conflicting objectives, a specific plan to develop appropriate standards to the benefit of the EU SMEs is very applicable guidance.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

This project makes the links between the SMEs operating in the business arena and the standards development to support their operations.

Impact on society (8th Open Call)

The sustainable role of DLT is in its ability to bring multi-vendor, multi-agency and multi-domain groups of stakeholders together such as required to tackle greenwashing and mass data verification. The standards require in such diverse areas as fish-farm verification to the development of mass data processing in space (especially relevant to the increasing load from AI systems), has the potential to extract over 15% of current energy use from the global atmosphere. Radical, but attainable schemes like these need rapid standards development to enable their use, so that the impact can be made within years, not decades.

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SDO/National Standard Body

OC#6 2026

OC#8 2026

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Technical Expert, European Distributed Computing Association

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Technical Expert, European Distributed Computing Association

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Developing the ISO/TC307 Technical Committee Strategy for Standards Development in Blockchain & DLT

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

develop a strategy and business plan for the ISO/TC307 Technical Committee

Proposal Title (8th Open Call)

New Sustainability standards within DLT & Blockchain Use - development of DLT Sustainability standards

ISO/CD 20435

Role in SDO

convenor

Standards Development Organisation

CEN

CLC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (2nd Open Call)

E-infrastructure for data and computing intensive service

Topic (6th Open Call)

Panos Kudumakis

Description of Activities

This project, towards enabling a fairer marketplace for rights holders and remuneration of authors and performers, initiated work on a new standard ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format currently at the Working Draft (WD) stage.

Fellow's country

United Kingdom

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

Effective IP rights management in the digital environment is key to support the competitiveness of creative SMEs. Thus, creative SMEs need to be empowered to make better decisions and deploy more advanced solutions based on insights gleaned from data.

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

EU Digital Single Market Copyright Directive aims to facilitate a fairer marketplace for rights holders. Effective IP rights management in the digital environment is key to support the competitiveness of creative SMEs. ISO/IEC 21000-23 Smart Contracts for Media supported by rich semantic copyright models can be handy when data-based decisions need to be derived by evidence and logic, leading to new business models that can be efficiently deployed on decentralised digital media platforms. Moreover, the interoperability of such platforms is addressed by ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format which building around DLT-agnostic ISO/IEC 21000-23 Smart Contracts for Media has the potential to unlock the Semantic Web and in turn the creative economy. The latter is not only one of the most rapidly growing sectors of the world economy, but also a highly transformative one in terms of income-generation, job creation, export earnings, quality of life and social cohesion.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format building around DLT-agnostic ISO/IEC 21000-23 Smart Contracts for Media has the potential to unlock both the Semantic Web and in turn the creative economy.

Impact on society (8th Open Call)

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IT Consultancy/Development

OC#6 2026

OC#8 2026

Organisation type

Organization

Senior Advisor, Independent Consultant

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Senior Advisor, Independent Consultant

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Advancing ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

ISO/IEC 21000-23 and 23000-23: New Standards for Interoperability and Transparency of Rights in Digital Media

Proposal Title (8th Open Call)

The challenge of rewarding human creativity in the AI era

Working Draft of ISO/IEC 23000-23

https://www.iso.org/committee/45316.html

Role in SDO

chair

Standards Development Organisation

ISO/IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Topic (6th Open Call)

Geoffrey Goodell

Description of Activities

Through this fellowship project, I am directly pursuing the development, approval, and publication of the following standards: ISO 22739:2024 ‘Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies – Vocabulary’, ISO/TR 24332 ‘Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology in relation to authoritative records, records systems, and records management’ and ISO/NP 24982 ‘Digital currencies – Vocabulary’.

Fellow's country

United Kingdom

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

These applications facilitate and enhance a wide variety of commercial activities among European businesses and feature prominently in active development of European regulations, including but not limited to eIDAS, EBSI, and some ECB initiatives on the development of a digital euro.

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

DLT can facilitate and enhance a wide variety of commercial activities among European businesses and feature prominently in active development of European regulations, including but not limited to eIDAS and EBSI.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

Distributed ledger technology offers an opportunity to promote better management of data within public services, including for accounting and records management, as well as for electronic payments, particularly in the context of digital currencies, which represent an opportunity for central banks and financial regulators to provide a public payment mechanism that citizen-consumers can use independently of potentially exclusive custodial relationships.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

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Lecturer, University College London

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Academia/Research

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Lecturer, University College London

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Core Standards for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Currencies

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Core Standards for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Currencies

ISO/TC 307

Role in SDO

convenor

Standards Development Organisation

CEN/CENELEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Topic (5th Open Call)

Digitisation of European Industry

Pablo Vicente Legazpi

Description of Activities

Having MEP equipment modelled and standardised could make this process economic and a disruptive market technology. The final objective is to develop an initial ontology oriented to simulation in buildings.

Fellow's country

Spain

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

Simulation is at the top of functionalities in buildings or smart cities. It is an AI model-based approach, compatible with the European values and the AI Act, recently approved at the European Parliament. Standards for simulation will allow the use of these techniques, providing an increased knowledge and future AI implementations of governance. It will open new markets and services.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

Mathematical simulation can be a revolutionary tool for the renovation wave and new buildings design, but it needs a supporting standard for the components, which must be well defined, certified, and validated. We propose to represent this standard by using ontologies or semantic web technologies.

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IT Consultancy/Development

Organisation type

Organization

Project Manager, Building Digital Twin Association, BDTA

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Building Digital Twin Association, BDTA

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Standards for building simulation: a new ontology for building simulation O4BSIM

CEN/TC 442/WG 9 - Digital twins in built environment

Standards Development Organisation

CEN

UNECE

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Digitisation of European Industry

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Peter Baumann

Description of Activities

My fellowship tackles the gap related to the insufficient models for achieving analysis-ready geo data.

Fellow's country

Germany

Open Call Topics

Big Data & Open data

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

SMEs benefit from these standards as they give guidance for implementation and allow products to be interoperable with the tools available in the market.

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

Never before has there been a faster and cheaper way to obtain information about land, water, atmosphere, as well as human impact on it. In Europe, for example, the Copernicus satellite family provides the foundation for insight into our planet, together with long climate time series and further data, such as elevation models. For such Big Earth Data, spatio-temporal datacubes are an established cornerstone in OGC, ISO, and INSPIRE standardisation modelled as "coverages".
For robust, user-friendly, interoperable services, a technically sound coverage standards suite is indispensable. The ISO/OGC suite of coverage data and service model is instrumental for easy, interoperable handling, and a who’s who of primary open-source and proprietary geo tools support these standards. For example, the legal framework for a common European spatial data infrastructure, INSPIRE, has adopted CIS as its basis.
In summary, this work is of the highest practical relevance and visibility, with significant impact on geo data infrastructures and, ultimately, increased understanding of our planet and the impact we have on it, as well as everyday day-to-day use of insight from geo data.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

This standards work is of highest practical relevance and visibility, with significant impact on the interoperability of geo data infrastructures and, ultimately, increased understanding of our planet and the impact we have on it.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

Better standards allow better tools and services, allowing us to gain a better understanding and insight into our planet. In particular, analysis of time series and fusion of multiple data sources, from in-situ to orbit, are critical enablers. The 19123-2 specification defines flexible, scalable, and interoperable ways of combining various spatio-temporal data sources into a standard picture; suitable tools may even provide dynamic services answering “any query, anytime”.

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OC#7 2026

Organisation type

Other

Organization

ISO standard editor, rasdaman GmbH

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rasdaman GmbH

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Enhanced Interoperability of Spatio-Temporal Datacubes

Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

Enhanced Interoperability of Big Geo Data

ISO 19123-2

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Digitisation of European Industry

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Big Data & Open data

Topic (7th Open Call)

Marco Azpúrua

Description of Activities

There is a lack of standard procedures installers can employ to determine whether their installation work has caused new electromagnetic interference problems. The challenge is to develop guidelines to help detect major emissions problems in the field early to fix them promptly, in a proactive and preventive manner that are complementary and coherent with standard emissions tests as part of compliance assessment.

Fellow's country

Spain

Open Call Topics

Smart Grids and Smart Metering

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

The alternative test methods proposed in the standards I contribute to benefit both SMEs and larger enterprises during their product certification processes, resulting in reduced costs, diminished noncompliance risks, and accelerated time-to-market for their products.

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

This action has the potential to positively impact SMEs and European society by addressing the challenges identified in the EV charging infrastructure. For SMEs, developing standardized procedures and traceable measurement methods creates market opportunities, enabling SMEs to design and manufacture products that meet regulatory requirements more efficiently. Moreover, the project’s focus on reliability in EVCS can increase consumer trust in SME-produced technologies, enhancing competitiveness.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

The project supports the transition to electromobility for European society, aligning with EU environmental goals. A better standardized EVCS facilitates sustainable mobility growth and ensures grid stability while providing solutions for electromagnetic disturbances and power quality issues.

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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Organisation type

Academia/Research

Organization

CISPR Expert, Assistant Professor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Rapid Electromagnetic Emission Check of Fixed Installations

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Towards Standardized Measurements of Electromagnetic Disturbances from Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Standards Development Organisation

IEC

CENELEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year